PvP, PvE or RP - Which do you enjoy most?

Tipsy

RP

Ironically,I believe without RP elements and utility,pvp and pve become like a soulless one where part is missing.
I'm glad to see so many RP people suddenly.It gives me hope.

FloppyTouch

Why not an option for all?

FloppyTouch

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Question to RPers ...

What are you actually doing? I mean do you stand in Mournhold singing Red Diamond every night? This is very confusing to me. Please explain.

We role play might meet up at a tavern have something to drink talk about the day then get ready for battle! Or talk about a boss hanging out in the local dungeon and go find ppl to take it down and collect our reward then later talk about our battle over some mead

Our characters have backstory and personalities that we act out while adventuring it just fun

Grunim

PvP

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

Grunim wrote: »

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

can someone please explain what the appeal of RP is? Do you have too much time on your hands and you are bored? Do you enjoy acting but do not want to do it IRL? Or do you actually enjoy ignoring reward/achievement based game play in favor of acting out random scenes with no structure? Seriously, not trying to be an ass....just do not understand it

Do you enjoy any creative type hobbies IRL such as drawing, painting, playing music, etc. Or do you believe all hobbies need to produce a tangible end product? I'm trying to understand your perspective and why you may be finding it difficult to understand how some people might derive enjoyment from roleplaying on a RPG.

sorry but no I do not draw or paint or play music. I play video game with some form progressive aspect to them as my hobby. I am more scientifically minded than most people and I think very analytically. I need to goal to achieve or I can not get motivated to do things. Again, I am not really against RPers, I just don't see how that is fun. To each his own I guess. I would rather sit and do a Sudoku puzzle than make up back stories for characters that serve no purpose. My girlfriend is an artist and she tells me to "lighten up" all the time and that I should "do things just for the sake of doing them" but that is just not how I think or act. Maybe I am just an "uptight jerk" like she calls me when she is mad at me....Lol. Thanks

You're welcome. Being scientific and analytically minded doesn't necessarily mean one is without creativity or purpose. For example, my husband is a scientist by education and is a software developer by profession. He dislikes the idea of roleplaying or playing a game like this, however he has a creative outlet where he loves to play various musical instruments and mainly plays improvisationally either by himself or with friends. He never creates a lasting piece of music so his playing music most likely falls into the category of "doing things just for the sake of doing them".

I use this example because many types of roleplay are purely improvisational in nature. Not all folks who indulge in roleplay are into the write extensive backgrounds type nor are acting out a specific story when they roleplay.

Don't be afraid to let whimsy take you away in some aspect of your life every now and then. I'm sure it won't detract from your other meaningful pursuits.

Well enough of this, back to Cyrodiil I go or do I need to stop and pick some flowers first so I can be effective on the fields of war??

RAGUNAnoOne

PvE

outsideworld76 wrote: »

Unfortunately ZOS has no love for us, only wants to push PvE content and does nothinh to improve lag issues in Cyrodiil.

Even though I am on the opposite side I agree with you on this issue especially the lag

wayfarerx

PvE

I like both PvE and PvP but I tend to do a lot more PvE. PvP is fun but stressful and that's not usually what I'm looking for when I log on to game in the evening.

I've always like the idea of RP in MMOs but have not really gotten into it in ESO, usually to busy in PvE or PvP

ThePaleItalian

PvE

I love the PvE, just put my headset on and get lost in it. Even first person viewing to get back to that Skyrim feel.

However, I would love to find some RP players or something, but I have no idea where to find then on PS4 NA Server. Even a guild. If anyone knows.

Abeille

RP

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

Vruci wrote: »

Your name is Durzo Blint right? What book is he from? I can't remember. But he was the ass kicking assassin dude. You obviously enjoyed the book if your name is Durzo Blint. Now imagine you can create a story like that book, except you are Durzo. You are that ass kicking assassin. The story unfolds, except instead of reading it on a page you are acting it out yourself with your friends. Fun, no?

I don't understand how you can say 'I don't understand things where there is no tangible product at the end' and then read a book.

the name is from the "Nightangel Trilogy". To me reading is completely different than buying a combat focused game and ignoring the combat. It seems to me to be like getting the "Song of Fire and Ice" series and only reading the parts about Tyrion. And in the books that I read they are working toward a goal. Books with no plot and no progression quickly get sold again. Books like "The Sorcerer's Ring" just hold no interest for me. It is hard to explain in the 4 mintues I have left before work ends, but to me there is a big difference between reading for reading sake and reading to enjoy a story or characters. Sorry, wish I could put it into words but that is pretty much the same as the difference between me not understanding RP and you not understanding me. Live and let live. Enjoy your imaginations kiddos!
as a side note I might like to sit in on a RP session some time and see what it is I am not understanding. Maybe I have to be there to get it?

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Roleplayers ONLY do Roleplay. This is largely untrue.

For example, the unofficial RP server in GW2, before the servers were mixed up, was Tier 1-2 on World vs World (their three-sides large scale PvP) and the second server to finish the most difficult PvE content in the game.

RP is an aspect of the game that most of us like to participate on along with the goal-oriented aspects. Using the same comparison as you, not roleplaying would be like reading ASOIAF and skipping all of Tyrion's chapters, then

We RP to enjoy the story or characters too, like you read to enjoy the story or the characters. Only some of the characters are our characters, that we wrote ourselves (and others are other people's characters, that they wrote).

Cazzy

RP

Humatiel wrote: »

Very well done OP making people choose one or the other, otherwise everyone would choose both and the poll would be moot. It's interesting to see PvE is currently ahead given I assumed this community was far more heavily focused on pvp.

Thank you I know a lot of people like more than one (even all 3, like myself) but I wanted to see what people would opt for if they had to choose just one.

Glad to see PvP is high in numbers tbh!

Shunravi

all the above

Shunravi

Abeille wrote: »

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

Vruci wrote: »

Your name is Durzo Blint right? What book is he from? I can't remember. But he was the ass kicking assassin dude. You obviously enjoyed the book if your name is Durzo Blint. Now imagine you can create a story like that book, except you are Durzo. You are that ass kicking assassin. The story unfolds, except instead of reading it on a page you are acting it out yourself with your friends. Fun, no?

I don't understand how you can say 'I don't understand things where there is no tangible product at the end' and then read a book.

the name is from the "Nightangel Trilogy". To me reading is completely different than buying a combat focused game and ignoring the combat. It seems to me to be like getting the "Song of Fire and Ice" series and only reading the parts about Tyrion. And in the books that I read they are working toward a goal. Books with no plot and no progression quickly get sold again. Books like "The Sorcerer's Ring" just hold no interest for me. It is hard to explain in the 4 mintues I have left before work ends, but to me there is a big difference between reading for reading sake and reading to enjoy a story or characters. Sorry, wish I could put it into words but that is pretty much the same as the difference between me not understanding RP and you not understanding me. Live and let live. Enjoy your imaginations kiddos!
as a side note I might like to sit in on a RP session some time and see what it is I am not understanding. Maybe I have to be there to get it?

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Roleplayers ONLY do Roleplay. This is largely untrue.

For example, the unofficial RP server in GW2, before the servers were mixed up, was Tier 1-2 on World vs World (their three-sides large scale PvP) and the second server to finish the most difficult PvE content in the game.

RP is an aspect of the game that most of us like to participate on along with the goal-oriented aspects. Using the same comparison as you, not roleplaying would be like reading ASOIAF and skipping all of Tyrion's chapters, then

We RP to enjoy the story or characters too, like you read to enjoy the story or the characters. Only some of the characters are our characters, that we wrote ourselves (and others are other people's characters, that they wrote).

A way i like to put it is; a good way to rp an incredibly skilled character its to actually have your character be incredibly skilled.

Abeille

RP

Shunravi wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

Vruci wrote: »

Your name is Durzo Blint right? What book is he from? I can't remember. But he was the ass kicking assassin dude. You obviously enjoyed the book if your name is Durzo Blint. Now imagine you can create a story like that book, except you are Durzo. You are that ass kicking assassin. The story unfolds, except instead of reading it on a page you are acting it out yourself with your friends. Fun, no?

I don't understand how you can say 'I don't understand things where there is no tangible product at the end' and then read a book.

the name is from the "Nightangel Trilogy". To me reading is completely different than buying a combat focused game and ignoring the combat. It seems to me to be like getting the "Song of Fire and Ice" series and only reading the parts about Tyrion. And in the books that I read they are working toward a goal. Books with no plot and no progression quickly get sold again. Books like "The Sorcerer's Ring" just hold no interest for me. It is hard to explain in the 4 mintues I have left before work ends, but to me there is a big difference between reading for reading sake and reading to enjoy a story or characters. Sorry, wish I could put it into words but that is pretty much the same as the difference between me not understanding RP and you not understanding me. Live and let live. Enjoy your imaginations kiddos!
as a side note I might like to sit in on a RP session some time and see what it is I am not understanding. Maybe I have to be there to get it?

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Roleplayers ONLY do Roleplay. This is largely untrue.

For example, the unofficial RP server in GW2, before the servers were mixed up, was Tier 1-2 on World vs World (their three-sides large scale PvP) and the second server to finish the most difficult PvE content in the game.

RP is an aspect of the game that most of us like to participate on along with the goal-oriented aspects. Using the same comparison as you, not roleplaying would be like reading ASOIAF and skipping all of Tyrion's chapters, then

We RP to enjoy the story or characters too, like you read to enjoy the story or the characters. Only some of the characters are our characters, that we wrote ourselves (and others are other people's characters, that they wrote).

A way i like to put it is; a good way to rp an incredibly skilled character its to actually have your character be incredibly skilled.

I agree 100%.

One of the things that annoy me the most is when someone is roleplaying a super powerful warrior but doesn't bother to even level that character. Had a guild leader do that on a hardcore RP guild I was part of in other game. Guy started a freaking speech in front of a boss inside a dungeon we were running in-character without knowing he was within the range of the boss, and got one-hit killed. Sigh...

Waffennacht

Abeille wrote: »

Shunravi wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

Vruci wrote: »

Your name is Durzo Blint right? What book is he from? I can't remember. But he was the ass kicking assassin dude. You obviously enjoyed the book if your name is Durzo Blint. Now imagine you can create a story like that book, except you are Durzo. You are that ass kicking assassin. The story unfolds, except instead of reading it on a page you are acting it out yourself with your friends. Fun, no?

I don't understand how you can say 'I don't understand things where there is no tangible product at the end' and then read a book.

the name is from the "Nightangel Trilogy". To me reading is completely different than buying a combat focused game and ignoring the combat. It seems to me to be like getting the "Song of Fire and Ice" series and only reading the parts about Tyrion. And in the books that I read they are working toward a goal. Books with no plot and no progression quickly get sold again. Books like "The Sorcerer's Ring" just hold no interest for me. It is hard to explain in the 4 mintues I have left before work ends, but to me there is a big difference between reading for reading sake and reading to enjoy a story or characters. Sorry, wish I could put it into words but that is pretty much the same as the difference between me not understanding RP and you not understanding me. Live and let live. Enjoy your imaginations kiddos!
as a side note I might like to sit in on a RP session some time and see what it is I am not understanding. Maybe I have to be there to get it?

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Roleplayers ONLY do Roleplay. This is largely untrue.

For example, the unofficial RP server in GW2, before the servers were mixed up, was Tier 1-2 on World vs World (their three-sides large scale PvP) and the second server to finish the most difficult PvE content in the game.

RP is an aspect of the game that most of us like to participate on along with the goal-oriented aspects. Using the same comparison as you, not roleplaying would be like reading ASOIAF and skipping all of Tyrion's chapters, then

We RP to enjoy the story or characters too, like you read to enjoy the story or the characters. Only some of the characters are our characters, that we wrote ourselves (and others are other people's characters, that they wrote).

A way i like to put it is; a good way to rp an incredibly skilled character its to actually have your character be incredibly skilled.

I agree 100%.

One of the things that annoy me the most is when someone is roleplaying a super powerful warrior but doesn't bother to even level that character. Had a guild leader do that on a hardcore RP guild I was part of in other game. Guy started a freaking speech in front of a boss inside a dungeon we were running in-character without knowing he was within the range of the boss, and got one-hit killed. Sigh...

Ahahahahaa, well it fits the character right? We all know that person whom talks the talk, but sadly cannot walk the walk. I think that's the best RP experience I've read

Abeille

RP

Waffennacht wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

Shunravi wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

DurzoBlint13 wrote: »

Vruci wrote: »

Your name is Durzo Blint right? What book is he from? I can't remember. But he was the ass kicking assassin dude. You obviously enjoyed the book if your name is Durzo Blint. Now imagine you can create a story like that book, except you are Durzo. You are that ass kicking assassin. The story unfolds, except instead of reading it on a page you are acting it out yourself with your friends. Fun, no?

I don't understand how you can say 'I don't understand things where there is no tangible product at the end' and then read a book.

the name is from the "Nightangel Trilogy". To me reading is completely different than buying a combat focused game and ignoring the combat. It seems to me to be like getting the "Song of Fire and Ice" series and only reading the parts about Tyrion. And in the books that I read they are working toward a goal. Books with no plot and no progression quickly get sold again. Books like "The Sorcerer's Ring" just hold no interest for me. It is hard to explain in the 4 mintues I have left before work ends, but to me there is a big difference between reading for reading sake and reading to enjoy a story or characters. Sorry, wish I could put it into words but that is pretty much the same as the difference between me not understanding RP and you not understanding me. Live and let live. Enjoy your imaginations kiddos!
as a side note I might like to sit in on a RP session some time and see what it is I am not understanding. Maybe I have to be there to get it?

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Roleplayers ONLY do Roleplay. This is largely untrue.

For example, the unofficial RP server in GW2, before the servers were mixed up, was Tier 1-2 on World vs World (their three-sides large scale PvP) and the second server to finish the most difficult PvE content in the game.

RP is an aspect of the game that most of us like to participate on along with the goal-oriented aspects. Using the same comparison as you, not roleplaying would be like reading ASOIAF and skipping all of Tyrion's chapters, then

We RP to enjoy the story or characters too, like you read to enjoy the story or the characters. Only some of the characters are our characters, that we wrote ourselves (and others are other people's characters, that they wrote).

A way i like to put it is; a good way to rp an incredibly skilled character its to actually have your character be incredibly skilled.

I agree 100%.

One of the things that annoy me the most is when someone is roleplaying a super powerful warrior but doesn't bother to even level that character. Had a guild leader do that on a hardcore RP guild I was part of in other game. Guy started a freaking speech in front of a boss inside a dungeon we were running in-character without knowing he was within the range of the boss, and got one-hit killed. Sigh...

Ahahahahaa, well it fits the character right? We all know that person whom talks the talk, but sadly cannot walk the walk. I think that's the best RP experience I've read

When you put it that way, yeah xD
We roleplayed our characters freaking out and dragging his body out of the dungeon after we killed the boss without him (we were all well above the level of the dungeon and he was far below it). Problem is, he still wanted to roleplay as a super powerful warrior (he did absurd things if his character got into a fight with another person's character), not as someone who just boasts about it. I see it as godmodding tbh. It is better to avoid doing something ICly if you can't do it OOCly, in my opinion, which is why I PvP and do endgame PvE too with character who are supposed to either participate on the Cyrodiil war or to be a prolific member of one of the guilds. And of course, my Orc who was a Forge-Wife is a master crafter.

KICHZY

PvE

PVE all the way for me.

From exploring Tamriel doing quests to grouping up with friends doing dungeons or simply kicking back and reading lore books, This is how I enjoy playing ESO.

Ffastyl

PvP

I like immersive exploration the most and combat that pushes my capabilities. PvP pushes those boundaries and none of these options are immersive Exploration.

Shadesofkin

PvE

sluice wrote: »

There is something to do outside of Cyrodiil?

There's something to do *inside* Cyrodil?

BlackSparrow

RP

RP via PvE, here.

BruhItsOver9000

PvP

Finished all quests in pve, completed every dungeon and killed every creature. Now i play pvp.

Sentinel

PvP

I chose PvP because I do that the most often, but in terms of enjoyment? PvP and RP are tied here.

I also love to RPvE, Roleplay against the environment. The best way to describe it is Roleplaying in the world akin to playing any other TES game, except traveling with other characters as well. Places like Craglorn, and even various dungeons that can be played while RPing in a small group (less than 3).

Jules

PvP

pvp all day

Mic1007

PvE

I do enjoy the occasional journey into Cyrodiil, though.

Vruci

RP

Durzo- RP story archs create the SAME 'goals' you are talking about. It's the SAME thing just more interactive

rootimus

All of the above.

Ch4mpTW

PvE

I suppose PVP can be fun, if a specific and strict criteria I have for PVP are met. But, often times I find the criteria isn't met. Therefore leading to irritation and stress. So, I'd rather just do PVE. As I find it more relaxing, and more controlled.

Mojmir

PvE

Pvp and pve

Smitch_59

PvE

PVE for me. The only time I go to Cyrodiil is Friday nights to see what the monster vendor has for sale.

Thevampirenight

RP

Glamdring wrote: »

I have always been a RP and when i started eso i looked at the map in auridon and went directly to the tavern to have a drink and some food and have a chat with other players there. To my suprise i couldnt order anything, i couldnt even sit down and no other ppl/players where there. I couldnt find a place to sleep, i couldnt get a job in town and so on. In just a few days of playing my RP efforts where diminishing. And i went the same route every new player is forced to do, the quest after quest after quest route. Now im in pvp almost all my playtime, and my efforts to roleplay is just a vague memory.

You can sit down you can eat, you can sleep. you have to type in the emote. In order to do all that. /sleep /eat1 /eat2 etc this game has a lot of emotes and it does have a lot of rp opportunity. But this is on pc, but consoles will have text chat soon so they might be able to do the same thing as well soon.

KenaPKK

PvP

@ScottK1994 you missed my point. I was referring to the approach of perfection in personal and group skill. There is no measure for dungeon "perfection" or "rightness." Some are more challenging than others, but they are what they are. The better you get at running a given dungeon or trial, the more similar and monotonous each of your groups' runs will become.

The more excellent you and your group gets at PvP, the more your fights vary. You'll become comfortable fighting in different locations, against better players, and against greater numbers of players. There's also a point where you can build fights for yourself by bringing the enemy to you or to your location of choice. Also, no fight is the same because players cannot be programmed or controlled. They always act and react differently.

KenaPKK

PvP

Those of you mentioning moment to moment excitement should go try PvP. That's this game's end game content and greatest source of moment to moment challenge, variety, and excitement.